Etiqueta: Fraud

An important group of civil society organizations
in Venezuelan has been monitoring the elections held in Venezuela since 2015.
This has enabled record and document, rigorously, the existence of a pattern of
systematic actions, exercised from state institutions, whose ultimate goal is
to keep the regime in power through the weakening of the vote as a democratic
instrument.

In this framework, the institutions of the
Venezuelan state have been transformed into authorities at the service of the
party and the ruling elite. Their objective, has been to promote distrust and
abstention, on the one hand, and to coerce the voters, on the other, through
mechanisms that make participation in electoral contests subject to maintenance
or continuity of the social programs of the national government, on which the
lives of many Venezuelans depend, especially those who are in conditions of
greater vulnerability.

From the civil
society, we recognize and appreciate the follow-up carried out by the
multilateral organizations, as well as the call for the realization of free
elections, that allow the peaceful and democratic outcome to the crisis that
the country is going through. In this context, we consider it important that
international actors interested in the revaluation of the vote in Venezuela
know the current status of the electoral system, as well as the proposals
generated by the national organizations to build and consolidate the electoral
path as a key element for the peaceful solution to the conflict in Venezuela.

The work and
documentation consigned in this document therefore point to the need to begin the
process of construction of the electoral route, which includes an effective
strategy of international technical assistance. This process must include both
democratic political leadership and civil society experts, in order to ensure
the implementation of genuinely free and democratic elections. We believe that,
without the realization of elections, and the consequent recovering of institutions
in the country, there is no way to overcome the crisis of governability in
which Venezuela is embroiled.

The follow-up, actions
and messages issued by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
as well as the statements of the representatives of the International Contact
Group and the spokespersons of different countries of the world, and the
follow-up of all this process by multilateral organizations active in the
promotion of the electoral route, constitute a unique opportunity to publicize
the violations of political rights that occurred in Venezuela, which have been
manifested mainly through three ways: 1) the process systematic violation of
electoral guarantees; 2) the extreme weakening of political pluralism; and 3)
the undermining of the vote as a peaceful mechanism for conflict resolution.

In order to contribute
to this knowledge, we also set out below data and a series of documents
prepared by various groups of civil society on the process of dismantling and
disintegrating the system of electoral guarantees that has taken place in the
country between 2016 and 2018 and that can be reviewed in the following link:

This process was
followed, observed and monitored in a systematic and meticulous way by numerous
organizations specialized in political-electoral issues in Venezuela, among
which are Acceso a la Justicia, Centro de Justicia y Paz (Cepaz), Observatorio
Electoral Venezolano, Observatorio Global de Comunicación y Democracia (OGCD),
Red Electoral Ciudadana(REC), Red de Observación Electoral de la Asamblea de
Educación, Transparencia Venezuela and Voto Joven.

To facilitate its
reading, we have divided this material into five points:

I.
Elections under the Socialism of the XXI Century (1999-2003)

II.
Institutionalization of “El Ventajismo” (2004-2015)

III.
Breakdown of the electoral democracy (2016-2018)

IV.
Proposals for the celebration of a free, fair and democratic election